Wyomissing's Chris Button tees off during the BCIAA boys golf champi-onship at Willow Hollow on Wednesday.

That Chris Button won the BCIAA Boys Golf Tournament Wednesday wasn’t all that surprising.

But what did raise plenty of eyebrows around Willow Hollow, was the relative ease with which the Wyomissing senior dispatched the rest of the county’s elite.

Button, whose victory in 2004 as a freshman was considered an upset, made his repeat three years later look easy by cruising to a five-shot win with a 27-hole total of 1-under 106.

He became the first repeat champ since Boyertown’s Mike Bowers in 1994-95 and recorded the biggest victory margin since Fleetwood’s Jason Koehler also won by five strokes in 1992.

Wilson sophomore Anthony Miller was second at 111, followed by Wyomissing senior Chris DiRenzo, 112; Kutztown junior Phil Rothermel, 113; and Brandywine Heights freshman John Heydt, who won a playoff over Daniel Boone junior Andrew Heffernan after both shot 115.

“I was hoping to get it done again one of these years,” said Button, who finished seventh as a sophomore and second last year. “It was kind of funny I won as a freshman, because I didn’t really know what was going on. I wasn’t worried about my swing, my set-up or what-not. I just went up and hit the ball. Now I’m thinking a lot more.”

Button was thinking about birdie a lot during the morning 18 holes, when he made six en route to an even-par 70 that gave him a one-shot lead over Rothermel.

“I think I said to (morning playing partner) Jared (Palubinski of Hamburg), ‘You shoot even, and you’ll be leading,’ ” Button said. “And that’s what I wound up shooting.”

Button caught a huge break on the first hole of his final nine — the par-4 10th — when he blocked his drive right into the area of the 17th tee, but got a generous kick to the right greenside rough.

He took advantage by getting up-and-down for a birdie; Rothermel made bogey for a critical two-shot swing right off the bat.

“If you’re going to win anything, you have to have a couple of things like that go your way,” Button said. “I was thinking Phil’s going to make birdie and I might make bogey until I saw my ball.

“Then he ends up chipping it over the green, and I made birdie. I was like, ‘Wow.’ That totally changed the tide, and I felt a lot more comfortable.”

After getting some more breathing room with a birdie at 12, Button’s only real trouble came at the par-5 13th, when he somewhat foolishly tried to thread the needle between some trees on his second shot from a bunker instead of laying up to the left.

He wound up paying the price when his second shot caromed off the trees into a creek bed. He made a double bogey.

But after steadying himself with a couple of solid pars, Button delivered the knockout blow at the par-5 16th when he hit a 9-iron from 165 yards to within 8 feet to set up an eagle.

The first time around at 16, Button hit the pin with his 8-iron second shot to set up a two-putt birdie.

“I hit the ball real solid, and the putter felt good,” Button said. “I wasn’t scared to go after putts, and they were falling when they needed to. This was a good way to finish up everything in Berks County and move on to districts and hopefully states.”